annegirl
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Okay...
I had to remind myself where I left off.
Right now I am still watching flights. Our hopes are to fly out of Salt Lake City, visit Iceland's Blue Lagoon for a long layover and arrive in London at night.
We will stay in a hotel near Paddington station then catch the train at Paddington the next morning to Bath where we will pick up our rental car, see the Bath sites, maybe pop down to Glastonbury Tol and then spend the night at that hotel I posted just outside of Bath.
The next morning we will be making a slightly long trek to the South East of England to Canterbury.
But we don't have to be there until evening so we plan on making a few fun stops along the way.
First we will be stopping by Stonehenge.
I have read that you have to buy tickets beforehand if you want to actually get up close to it. We will be watching for that and see when the earliest tickets are for.
If we can't get tickets we will be content to at least see it from the road.
Next we will drive to Winchester to see the Winchester cathedral, the grave of Jane Austen there, and King Arthur's round table (or so legend says) hanging in the cathedral.
Then we will make our way to Chawton House- Jane Austen's home.
My mom and I are both very excited to see these two towns and these sites.
By the time we leave Jane's house it should be early afternoon. We will have had lunch somewhere along the way. Not sure about that yet as it will be figured out the day of probably based on how we are doing with time.
From here we will head straight to Canterbury BUT if we have time we will make our way to Ashdown Forest on the way to visit Pooh Corner.
Here they have a shop, a tea spot, the Pooh Stick's Bridge, etc.
We both think this would be really fun to visit but it is not our highest priority if we don't have time.
The main reason would be to pick up something fun for my little Madeline (the 5 year old) because she LOVES Winnie the Pooh.
Either way we will hopefully arrive in Canterbury in the afternoon, not to late. Maybe early enough to attend Evensong in the cathedral.
We have booked our lodging at the Canterbury Cathedral Lodge which is right on the grounds of Canterbury Cathedral and gives us free admission as well as the ability to wander the grounds as much as we want and after hours.
I am VERY excited about that! Parking is down the street and a few extra pounds but it is all worth it to me to be at the legendary Canterbury Cathedral.
If we make really good time we will try to see the cathedral in the afternoon, attend Evensong, and then go wander the town for a while and have dinner in town before settling into our room.
If not we will see the inside of the cathedral in the AM.
It is hard to know exactly what we will have time for as we won't know until the day how long we will end up taking at each of our stops.
I have estimated it based on the driving time and the estimated times I have gathered from blogs and trip reports.
But I never want to be in too much of a rush to enjoy places so we can tweak things as much as needed that day. Only requirement is to get to Canterbury by night since we have already paid for the room!
I had to remind myself where I left off.
Right now I am still watching flights. Our hopes are to fly out of Salt Lake City, visit Iceland's Blue Lagoon for a long layover and arrive in London at night.
We will stay in a hotel near Paddington station then catch the train at Paddington the next morning to Bath where we will pick up our rental car, see the Bath sites, maybe pop down to Glastonbury Tol and then spend the night at that hotel I posted just outside of Bath.
The next morning we will be making a slightly long trek to the South East of England to Canterbury.
But we don't have to be there until evening so we plan on making a few fun stops along the way.
First we will be stopping by Stonehenge.
I have read that you have to buy tickets beforehand if you want to actually get up close to it. We will be watching for that and see when the earliest tickets are for.
If we can't get tickets we will be content to at least see it from the road.
Next we will drive to Winchester to see the Winchester cathedral, the grave of Jane Austen there, and King Arthur's round table (or so legend says) hanging in the cathedral.
Then we will make our way to Chawton House- Jane Austen's home.
My mom and I are both very excited to see these two towns and these sites.
By the time we leave Jane's house it should be early afternoon. We will have had lunch somewhere along the way. Not sure about that yet as it will be figured out the day of probably based on how we are doing with time.
From here we will head straight to Canterbury BUT if we have time we will make our way to Ashdown Forest on the way to visit Pooh Corner.
Here they have a shop, a tea spot, the Pooh Stick's Bridge, etc.
We both think this would be really fun to visit but it is not our highest priority if we don't have time.
The main reason would be to pick up something fun for my little Madeline (the 5 year old) because she LOVES Winnie the Pooh.
Either way we will hopefully arrive in Canterbury in the afternoon, not to late. Maybe early enough to attend Evensong in the cathedral.
We have booked our lodging at the Canterbury Cathedral Lodge which is right on the grounds of Canterbury Cathedral and gives us free admission as well as the ability to wander the grounds as much as we want and after hours.
I am VERY excited about that! Parking is down the street and a few extra pounds but it is all worth it to me to be at the legendary Canterbury Cathedral.
If we make really good time we will try to see the cathedral in the afternoon, attend Evensong, and then go wander the town for a while and have dinner in town before settling into our room.
If not we will see the inside of the cathedral in the AM.
It is hard to know exactly what we will have time for as we won't know until the day how long we will end up taking at each of our stops.
I have estimated it based on the driving time and the estimated times I have gathered from blogs and trip reports.
But I never want to be in too much of a rush to enjoy places so we can tweak things as much as needed that day. Only requirement is to get to Canterbury by night since we have already paid for the room!
